Recent News
- October 2019: Bruno Caprettini's and my paper on the Captain Swing riots is conditionally accepted at American Economic Review: Insights. [VOXEU]
- September 2019: I am going to deliver the second annual Crafts Lecture at Warwick University in July 2020.
- August 2019: Guo Xu and I have a new working paper on the Royal Navy "Patronage for Productivity: Insights from the Age of Sail" [VOXEU]
- August 2019: Jacopo Ponticelli's and my paper on "Austerity and Anarchy: Budget Cuts and Social Unrest in Europe, 1919-2008" is forthcoming in the Journal of Comparative Economics.
- June 2019: I am the keynote speaker at the Australasian Public Choice Conference, Brisbane, December 2019.
- March 2019: I am going to deliver a keynote at the 1st Economic History Conference in Bologna.
- December 2018: Sebastian Doerr, Stefan Gissler, Jose-Luis Peydro and I have a new working paper "From Finance to Fascism: The Real Effect of Germany 1931 Banking Crisis" [VOXEU]
- September 2018: I am delivering a keynote at the GEP Conference on Economic Integration, Nottingham.
- March 2018: Congratulations to Bruno Caprettini, to just won a Mercator Award at the University of Zurich.
- April 2017: The SNF just awarded Bruno Caprettini and me CHF 1,000,500 for our project "Wages and Veteran Status: The Greatest Lottery in History".
- May 2017: I am going to be the Scientific Director at the UBS International Center for Economics in Society, University of Zurich, from August 2017.
- January 2017: Philipp Ager, Leo Burzstyn, Lukas Leucht and I have a new working paper "Killer Incentives: Status Competition and Pilot Performance during World War II." [VOXEU]
- September 2016: I will be a keynote speaker at the Winter Meetings of the Econometric Society in Barcelona, December 2017.
- May 2016: Peter Koudijs' and my paper on "Leverage and Beliefs" is forthcoming at the American Economic Review
- March 2016: I will be visiting UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business as a Baxter Fellow for the academic year 2016-17.
- February 2016: Congratulations to Nico Voigtländer for getting tenure at UCLA-Anderson!
- November 2015: I have been appointed to the UBS Professorship in Macroeconomics and Financial Markets.
- September 2015: Shanker Satyanath's, Nico Voigtländer's and my paper on the dark side of network capital and the rise of the Nazi party, called "Bowling for Fascism", is now forthcoming in the Journal of Political Economy.
- July 2015: I will be delivering the Sir John Hicks Lecture in Oxford in the spring of 2016.
- The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) is publishing "Nazi indoctrination and anti-Semitic beliefs in Germany" (with Nico Voigtländer) [news coverage here].
- March 2015: Congratulations to my PhD students Felipe Valencia, Andrea Matranga, and Jörg Stahl. They will take up tenure track positions at U Bonn, the New School in Moscow, and the Universidade Nova in Lisbon, respectively.
- December 2014: Congratulations to my PhD student Vasiliki (Vicky) Fouka, who just received an offer to join the Stanford Political Science Department as an Assistant Professor next fall.
- October 2014: Starting in June 2015, I will be an editor at the Economic Journal.
- October 2014: The Review of Economic Studies is publishing "State Capacity and Military Conflict" (with Nicola Gennaioli).
- September 2014: The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) just awarded 500,000 CHF for my research project "Debt into Growth: How the Country that Borrowed the Most Industrialized First".
- September 2014: Swiss Radio has an interview with me and an article about my views on Catalan independence.
- July 2014: I will be a columnist for Finanz und Wirtschaft, the Swiss financial newspaper. The first article is about bubbles and monetary poliy.
- July 2014: I am teaching at the Tsinghua University Summer School in Quantitative Economic History in Beijing.
- June 2014: I am delivering a keynote address at the LACEA political economy conference in Bogota.
- May 2014: The Wall Street Journal Germany and Marketwatch cover my paper on "Recreating the South Sea Bubble" (with Giovanni Giusti and Charles Noussair).
- May 2014: Nico Voigtländer and I have a new working paper called "Highway to Hitler" [CEPR] [SSRN] [VOX]
- April 2014: The Economist highlights my research on time use in the past. [also in the Daily Telegraph]
- February 2014: The Economist covers my research on risk aversion with Peter Koudijs [NBER] [CEPR] [SSRN] [VOX].
- January 2014: I have taken up my new position as Chair of Economic Development at the Economics Department, University of Zurich.
- January 2014: My book with Mauricio Drelichman Lending to the Borrower from Hell has been published by Princeton University Press.
- August 2013: The Financial Times today has an article by Mauricio Drelichman and me on lessons from Habsburg Spain for sovereign lending.
- July 2013: I am teaching at the Warwick Summer School in Economic Growth, July 7-12.
- June 2013: Shanker Satyanath, Nico Voigtländer and I have a new working paper entitled "Bowling for Fascism: Social Capital and the Rise of the Nazi Party in Weimar Germany. [coverage in Slate.]
- March 2013: The Review of Economics and Statistics is publishing Numeracy and the Impact of High Food Prices in Industrializing Britain, 1780‐1850 (joint with Joerg Baten and Dorothee Crayen).
- January 2013: I have just become an editor (with Bill Collins) of Explorations in Economic History.
- December 2012: Peter Temin's and my book Prometheus Shackled is now out with OUP (Jan 2013).
- November 2012: How the West 'Invented' Fertility Restriction [with Nico Voigtländer] is forthcoming in the American Economic Review .
- October 2012: The Review of Economic Studies is publishing Horsemen of Riches: War, Plague and Urbanization in Early Modern Europe [with Nico Voigtländer].
- August 2012: The Quarterly Journal of Economics has published Persecution Perpetuated: The Medieval Origins of Anti-Semitic Violence in Nazi Germany [with Nico Voigtländer].
- March 2012: Mauricio Drelichman's and my paper on Lending to the Borrower from Hell: Debt and Default in the Age of Philip II is now out in the Economic Journal.
- October 2011: The EHS has finally managed to put up the video of my April 2011 Tawney lecture.
- September 2011: Mauricio Drelichman and I just won the Explorations Prize for our article "Serial Defaults, Serial Profits: Returns to Sovereign Lending in Habsburg Spain, 1566-1600", Explorations in Economic History 48(1) 2011.
- August 2011: Jacopo Ponticelli and I have a discussion paper on "Austerity and Anarchy" at CEPR [VOXEU: summary; coverage at BBC-Radio 4, Time Magazine, CNN, WSJ, El Pais, FAZ, Freakonomics, The Guardian, L'Expansion, The Atlantic, El Economista, France24, Frankfurter Rundschau, Berliner Zeitung, CTV-Canada, Die Welt]
- July 2011: Mauricio Drelichman and I have a new CEPR discussion paper, asking "can contingent sovereign debt ever work?" Our answer - yes (in the 16th century at least)
- Summer 2011: I have been asked to become an Associate Editor at the Quarterly Journal of Economics.
- Spring 2011: Congratulations to my doctoral student Peter Koudijs, who will take up a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor at the Finance Department, Stanford GSB, in July 2011, and who is also one of the first European PhDs to join the RES tour.
Other News
- CNN has an op ed piece by me about parallels between the Dutch revolt and the independence movement in Catalonia.
- The Wirtschaftswoche has an article by me about historical experiences with currency unions.
- The Economic Focus in the Economist features my paper with Tim Leunig on process innovation.
- The Economist just made my unrest paper with Jacopo Ponticelli the topic of the Economics Focus column.
- CNN ran an op-ed piece of mine comparing Greece and Argentina in 2001.
- Der Spiegel - August 29, 2011 edition - has an interview with me about the future of the Euro [print edition, (poor) English translation here].